Boulton, Alfredo

Trained in Switzerland and supported by an old merchant family, Boulton is undoubtedly the pioneer of authorial photography in Venezuela. Since 1928, he has been associated with the literary and artistic vanguard of his time, capturing the country through photographic art. He then showcased his findings in low-print art books and solo exhibitions. Regarded as the most important art historian of 20th-century Venezuela, he left behind not only valuable bibliography but also a splendid photographic oeuvre aiming to capture the landscape, folklore, history, customs, ways of life, and, in general, the ethnic and geographic peculiarities of the different Spanish-speaking peoples of the Americas. The most significant exhibitions of Boulton's work were held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1946), the Musée de l'Homme in Paris (1978), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas (1979), and the Eugenio Mendoza Foundation in Caracas (1992).